The Hardy Tree - 'Through Passages of Time' Repress.

The Hardy Tree - 'Through Passages of Time' is sold out, there will be a second pressing  this time on transparent yellow vinyl. It is available to pre-order now and will ship on the 3rd Feb 2017. 

£16.99p +P&P

Download/stream at: itunes/bandcamp/spotify/greedbag etc

SPENCER'S PICK OF THE WEEK - The Hardy Tree, Through The Passages Of Time (Clay Pipe Music) Another beautiful release from Clay Pipe here. Delicate melodies weave themselves in and out of wonderful, warm Moog synths & mellotrons creating an enchanting wistful paean to an England long forgotten. This is hauntingly beautiful and easily one of the records of the year. Please go seek it out and support this amazing label. Spencer Hickman, Mondo Music Weekly.
 

"Through Passages of Time" belongs to another (green) world and congratulations should go to Frances Castle for divining this wonderfully touching collection and successfully capturing it on tape. It's musical psycho-geography par excellence and probably the most human record you will hear all year. Get it while you can as, like much of the city it commemorates, I am sure it will be gone before you know it.The Active Listener

Castle draws distinctive scenes that are as alluring and enigmatic as her acclaimed artwork. An understated yet remarkable genre-bending pleasure in short. DOA 

This is a wonderful record, a record that would appeal to anyone who likes good music, but especially rewarding for anyone of a certain age who likes the Vic Mars album The Land And The Garden out on the same label or indeed anyone who is familiar with the music of Vernon Elliott. It is both nostalgic yet modern. Terrascope
 

Through Passages of Time provides elegies for locations such as Newport Market, Sandbridge Court, Sluice House Tavern, even (*shudder*) Cut Throat Lane. The happy use of Moog, Mellotron and other seemingly antiquated instruments is both tribute and reflection. A Closer Listen.

The Hardy Tree - Through Passages of Time. Available Now.

The Hardy Tree – Through Passages of Time.

Release date 2nd Dec 2016.
12" coloured blue vinyl with reverse board cover. 500 hand numbered copies.
SOLD OUT  

There will be a re-press, please sign up to the mailing list.

I will make pre-orders available ASAP.

Available as download/stream through:
itunes/bandcamp/spotify/greedbag etc

  

The Hardy Tree is the musical project of Clay Pipe Music's founder Frances Castle, her first LP ' The Fields Lie Sleeping Underneath' was the initial release on the label over five years ago.

Through Passages of Time soundtracks buildings and areas of London that no longer exist. Small places stumbled upon by accident, traced on maps, and illustrated in Georgian prints. Frequently visited pubs that have been rebuilt and renamed, the ship breakers yard decorated with wooden figureheads at Baltic Wharf, or the Thames Watermen living in the shadow of the Hawksmoor designed church at Horselydown. Lost places re-imagined and brought to life using clusters of sequenced Moogs, off Kilter electronics, vibes, and Mellotron - capturing the essence of the dark city and its more bucolic outer suburbs. This is a plaint to an older stranger London that is quickly becoming priced out and forgotten. Look carefully and clues to the ancient past can still be found.
 
Looking Down on London
The Culvert
The Peerless Pool
St John Horsleydown
Newport Market
Baltic Wharf
Pepy’s Walk
Sandbridge Court
Sluice House Tavern
Penny’s Folly
Near Windmill Bridge
Harringay House
Cut Throat Lane


https://soundcloud.com/clay-pipe-music/the-hardy-tree-looking-down-on-london

https://soundcloud.com/clay-pipe-music/sandbridge-court

The Hardy Tree - Through Passages Of Time.

Next up on Clay Pipe, The Hardy Tree's 'Through Passages of Time'. More info soon.

Alasdair Roberts and James Green Mini Tour.

Due to popular demand the show at The Old Dentists  has now been split into two separate sittings/houses/shows.
TIMINGS AS FOLLOWS
EARLY SHOW https://www.wegottickets.com/event/375249
EO1 07:00 07:30
AR1 07:45 08:45
LATE SHOW https://www.wegottickets.com/event/370346
EO2 09:00 09:30
AR2 09:45 10:45
If you already have tickets, they are for the late show. If you're at all confused check timings on the WeGotTickets link through which you bought your tickets!

Alasdair Roberts and James Green are doing a mini tour in support of Plaint of Lapwing.
26th September - London,Old Dentists, E5 0LH
27th September - Sheffield , Regather Works.
29th September - Glasgow, Old Hairdressers.

I have now SOLD OUT of the LP however there are still copies available at:

 Transmission

Monorail 

Ghostbox

Little Toller

Normans.

'Plaint of Lapwing' by Alasdair Roberts and James Green.

Clay Pipe Music is proud to present 'Plaint of Lapwing' by Alasdair Roberts and James Green.

12" vinyl with download slip.

500 copies in red, 300 copies in blue.

Hand numbered reverse board covers.

BUY

£15.99 +P&P 

Also available at: 
Transmission
Monorail 
Normans
Ghostbox Guest Shop

Streaming and download:
iTunes / Amazon / Spotify 

 Here Alasdair explains how the record came about: 

Mayday 2012: an email from James Green in Sheffield reached me in Glasgow. I knew James a little – not particularly well; we had met a few times over the years and had collaborated a little too (I'd sung on a couple of songs on the album Folk Songs 2 by his group The Big Eyes Family Players). I understood that he played the harmoniflute, an instrument somewhere between a harmonium and an accordion, and seemed very enamoured of it. His email read: “had an idea about approaching you with... an ep or few songs (trad or otherwise) accompanied by my harmoniflute, and nothing else... just an idea once the dust has settled, maybe...”.

 The dust was not long in the swirling before coming to rest upon both of our past endeavours, and shortly we set to work on the project which became Plaint of Lapwing. My initial thought was to concentrate on just four pieces – I'd just recorded the Drag City LP/CD A Wonder Working Stone and had some songs left over from that. In a process which James was later to characterise as 'surreal', I started emailing him recordings of my disembodied voice; in response I would eagerly await, tracks featuring aforesaid voice with James' harmoniflute accompaniment.

The project gradually, almost imperceptibly, developed in scope and complexity over two years. I began sending James more vocal takes as well as other sonics I'd generated, for a variety of original compositions and some by other authors (including a song by the Perthshire folklorist Hamish Henderson, an arrangement by Benjamin Britten of a piece by the Irish poet Thomas Moore, a lyric by beekeeping Cornish film maker Timothy Neat and a setting of a work by the Angus poet Violet Jacob). James in turn increased his instrumental palette to include drums, guitars and all other kinds of musical things.

  As the project developed, so did a wonderful friendship blossom between James and myself.  I found I was sending vocal tracks attached to emails detailing current grievances in my personal life, as if envisaging James as some kind of agony aunt.  James, in return, sent completed tracks and, apparently regarding me as some kind of sounding board, emails venting his strident opinions (invariably in line with my own) on whatever political matter ruled the day. Before we knew it the disembodied sounds had become incarnate and James and I found we had an LP's worth of material - an LP featuring beautiful artwork by Frances Castle which you, dear listener, now have the opportunity to welcome into your own home.

Lino print by James Green. 

Caught By The River Thames

Thanks to everyone who bought copies of Tyneham House. They have now all been posted so you should receive your copy soon. This is an early reminder that later in the summer I'll be playing some music at the Caught By The River Thames Festival. You can buy tickets HERE Next up is Alasdair Roberts and James Greens 'Plaint of Lapwing', news on that soon.

Pre-order Tyneham House.

 Tyneham House.

10" Coloured Vinyl with hand made booklet.

300 numbered copies + download code.

Pre-orders now available.

SOLD OUT
DOWNLOAD FROM BANDCAMP

Previously available on CD as a split release between Second Language and Clay Pipe Music, this is its first outing on vinyl.

The small village of Tyneham, on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, was once a thriving little community – that is until the British Government requisitioned it for training manoeuvres and other ‘strategic purposes’ in the run up to WWII. This was supposed to be a temporary measure, but the area remained in military possession long after hostilities had ceased, causing distress among former inhabitants, many of whom were farmed out to prefabs in nearby Wareham and Swanage.

Tyneham was characterised by its red telephone box, a tiny parade of shops – Post Office Row – and a grand country pile which stood about half a mile away from the village: Tyneham House. The army removed the building’s oak panelling and ornate decorative details and promptly set about using it for target practice. So great was the shame expressed locally about the damage inflicted upon one of Dorset’s grandest houses that the powers that be decided to grow a copse around the remains of the structure to give the impression that it was no longer there. Despite this, a substantial part of the structure remains intact, including its Saxon hall. 

Land access around Tyneham was opened up in the 1970s, but admission to the house remains strictly verboten. Those who’ve been found around the premises, especially anyone wielding a camera, have felt the full weight of military trespass law. Tyneham today is regarded as a nature reserve by some – as a national embarrassment by others. It’s still a political hot potato, in Dorset at least.

The pastoral, wistful yet ineffably disquieting music of Tyneham House is made by artists  who wish to remain anonymous here, save for their eponymous title. The musicians are happy, however, to let it be known that these recordings have been around for some years (many of them complied from old cassettes) and that they take inspiration from the 1960s/’70s/’80s work of the Children’s Film Foundation – a body who really ought to have made a film about this mysterious West Country curio. At least now we have its endlessly poignant soundtrack.

Tracklisting:LP

• A Chalk Horse
• Rookery Wood
• Coppice Walk
• Binoculars
• Bletchingley
• Post Office Row
• The Crows Circle
• Winter Carriage
• The Ragged Cat
• I Shall Not Cross The Sleeping Hill
• The Porch Room
• Saxon Chapel
• Last Village Before The Sea
• Lit Room At Midnight

Download Extra :

A: A School Holiday, 1977
B: May Day, 1981

Independent Label Market

On 2nd of April 2016 Clay Pipe will be at the Independent Label Market at Spitafields, London. I will have pre-release copies of Tyneham House, and Alasdair Roberts and James Green's 'Plaint of Lapwing'. There will also be a joint cassette re-issue of Darren Haymans Lido with WIAIWYA. If you would like to reserve a copy of any of these please email me.

Tyneham House will be available to pre-order from the Clay Pipe website on 8th April, with a release date of the 6th May. Info on the previous CD release HERE

 

Vic Mars - The Land and The Garden, Second Edition.

The second 'Hollyhock' edition of Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden is nowavailable. 

SOLD OUT 

A few remaining copies at NORMANS

One copy per person. 

12" Vinyl LP, 500 hand numbered copies, reverse board mat cover, and printed inner sleeve with download code included.

You can also buy the album digitally from:

AMAZON// ITUNES// GOOGLE PLAY

Or stream it on: SPOTIFY

Vic Mars is a Herefordshire born musician currently based in London, he has recently returned from spending over a decade in Nagoya, Japan.In 2008 he released the mini-LP 'Kanransha' on Kentaro Togawa's Symbolic Interaction label, and 2012 saw the Bandcamp released library music inspired, 'Curriculum For Schools And Colleges: Volumes 1 &2'.

In 2013 whilst still based in Japan but on a visit home, Vic was stuck by the reprints of vintage British Railway posters hanging in his brothers house. Back in Japan, homesick and inspired by his childhood memories of the Herefordshire landscape he started the initial recordings for The Land and the Garden, carefully piecing together string and Mellotron soundscapes using archaic tracker software, and recording direct to cassette tape. During this time he immersed himself in the music of British classical composers such as Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the minimalist work of Wim Mertens and 1970’s children's BBC soundtracks such as those by Freddie Phillips, and Vernon Elliot. 

In 2014 with the album half finished Vic moved back to the UK, and after a period of disruption where his equipment was still in transit, he completed the record in the spring of 2015.

This is hugely ambitious and beautifully realised, neo-classical electronic/organic chamber music with mellotron (and associated ‘natural’ tape hiss) at the centre of much of the action going on. This is the sound of memory – a psycho-geographical survey of his British homeland largely dreamt up when Vic was way out east in Japan. The Active Listener

Vic Mars delved into his thoroughly English past for this release, pulling in vintage British Railway posters, the composer Gustav Holst and, 1970's children's television programs. The aesthetic is so deeply imbued that he’s even the classic Faber & Faber typeface… So, The Land And The Garden is kind of like English hauntology but without the spooky aspect: in fact, these pieces are rather lovely.  Normans Records

A quietly stunning full length from Vic Mars on the ever-reliable Clay Pipe label. The Land and The Garden takes a bucolic look at modern composition, with enticing reed instruments and Moondog-esque percussive lines weaving an understated poignancy into the compositions. It's instantly involving, a record unboastful of its melodic and arrangement achievements and sitting somewhere between Pascal Comelade, the afore-mentioned Moondog's most melodic work and something somehow quintessentially British and nostalgic, in the best possible way. Monorail Records

 The first non bandcamp release from Hereford born musician Vic Mars gives the impression of what the still shadowed pastoral of Virgina Astley's of From Gardens Where We Feel Secure would sound like if reorchestrated by Belbury Poly. The Wire

2016: Vic Mars, Tyneham House, Alasdair Roberts and James Green.

Thanks to everyone who bought the Vic Mars album, the vinyl sold out very quickly so if you missed it there will be a second "Hollyhock" edition early next year. 500 hand numbered copies. Please sign up to the mailing list if you want to be informed when it is ready.

It is available digitally at: AMAZON // ITUNES // GOOGLE PLAY

The next release on Clay Pipe will be the re-issue of Tyneham House on 10" pale green vinyl with a handmade booklet. 300 numbered copies.

Following on from this in the spring, will be Alasdair Roberts and James Green's: 'Plaint of Lapwing'.

Independent Label Market

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered  a copy of the Vic Mars album today, it is now SOLD OUT. If you are in London on Saturday I will have a few copies for sale at the Independent Label Market, Spitalfields. (Sharing a stall with WIAIWYA) If you want to reserve a copy to buy at the market drop me an email. If you are not in London please ignore any copies of the LP that may turn up on Discogs (I've tried extra hard to stop it from happening this time round) and wait for the reissue that will be out next year.

Digital Pre-orders of Vic Mars The Land and The Garden can be ordered here:

AMAZON // ITUNES // GOOGLE PLAY

 
 

Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden.

Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden. Pre-orders will be available from 23rd November 2015. Please sign up to the mailing list for a reminder. Release date 4th December 2015. It will also be available digitally across most digital platforms.

12" Vinyl LP, 300 hand numbered copies, reverse board mat cover, and printed inner sleeve with download code included.

SOLD OUT

 

 

Digital Pre-orders:

AMAZON // ITUNES // GOOGLE PLAY

Vic Mars is a Herefordshire born musician currently based in London, he has recently returned from spending over a decade in Nagoya, Japan. In 2008 he released the mini-LP 'Kanransha' on Kentaro Togawa's Symbolic Interaction label, and 2012 saw the Bandcamp released library music inspired, 'Curriculum For Schools And Colleges: Volumes 1 &2'.

In 2013 whilst still based in Japan but on a visit home, Vic was stuck by the reprints of vintage British Railway posters hanging in his brothers house. Back in Japan, homesick and inspired by his childhood memories of the Herefordshire landscape he started the initial recordings for The Land and the Garden, carefully piecing together string and Mellotron soundscapes using archaic tracker software, and recording direct to cassette tape. During this time he immersed himself in the music of British classical composers such as Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the minimalist work of Wim Mertens and 1970’s children's BBC soundtracks such as those by Freddie Phillips, and Vernon Elliot. 

In 2014 with the album half finished Vic moved back to the UK, and after a period of disruption where his equipment was still in transit, he completed the record in the spring of 2015.


This is hugely ambitious and beautifully realised, neo-classical electronic/organic chamber music with mellotron (and associated ‘natural’ tape hiss) at the centre of much of the action going on. This is the sound of memory – a psycho-geographical survey of his British homeland largely dreamt up when Vic was way out east in Japan. The Active Listener

Vic Mars delved into his thoroughly English past for this release, pulling in vintage British Railway posters, the composer Gustav Holst and, 1970's children's television programs. The aesthetic is so deeply imbued that he’s even the classic Faber & Faber typeface… So, The Land And The Garden is kind of like English hauntology but without the spooky aspect: in fact, these pieces are rather lovely.  Normans Records

A quietly stunning full length from Vic Mars on the ever-reliable Clay Pipe label. The Land and The Garden takes a bucolic look at modern composition, with enticing reed instruments and Moondog-esque percussive lines weaving an understated poignancy into the compositions. It's instantly involving, a record unboastful of its melodic and arrangement achievements and sitting somewhere between Pascal Comelade, the afore-mentioned Moondog's most melodic work and something somehow quintessentially British and nostalgic, in the best possible way. Monorail Records

 The first non bandcamp release from Hereford born musician Vic Mars gives the impression of what the still shadowed pastoral of Virgina Astley's of From Gardens Where We Feel Secure would sound like if reorchestrated by Belbury Poly. The Wire

New Prints

There are three new prints for sale in the Clay Pipe Shop. One based on the artwork for the forthcoming album from Vic Mars LP, and two others based on the artwork from the Sharron Kraus LP. 

Sharron Kraus -  Friends and Enemies, Lovers and Strangers.

Risograph* print on Munken Pure 170mg paper. 40 copies signed and numbered. A3

 £20 +P&P

Sharron Kraus -  Friends and Enemies, Lovers and Strangers.

Risograph print on Munken Pure 170mg paper. 40 copies signed and numbered. A3

 £20 +P&P

*Unlike digital or Gilcee prints Risogarph prints are not direct copies of the original image. Each colour is printed separately from black and white artwork, and because the Risograph inks come in just a few tones the colour pallet is limited. Risograph prints have a distinct lo-fi charm all of their own. 

 

 Vic Mars - The Land and The Garden.

Giclée Print on 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching paper.  30 copies signed and numbered. 16"x12"

SOLD OUT

Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden

The next release on Clay Pipe will be Vic Mars - The Land And The Garden. Pre-orders will be available from 23rd November 2015. Please sign up to the mailing list for a reminder. Release date 4th December 2015.  It will cost £15.99

300 hand numbered copies, reverse board mat cover, and printed inner sleeve with download code included.        

 Vic Mars is a Herefordshire born musician currently based in London, he has recently returned from spending over a decade in Nagoya, Japan. In 2008 he released the mini-LP 'Kanransha' on Kentaro Togawa's Symbolic Interaction label, and 2012 saw the Bandcamp released library music inspired, 'Curriculum For Schools And Colleges: Volumes 1 &2'.

In 2013 whilst still based in Japan but on a visit home, Vic was stuck by the reprints of vintage British Railway posters hanging in his brothers house. Back in Japan, homesick and inspired by his childhood memories of the Herefordshire landscape he started the initial recordings for The Land and the Garden, carefully piecing together string and Mellotron soundscapes using archaic tracker software, and recording direct to cassette tape. During this time he immersed himself in the music of British classical composers such as Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, the minimalist work of Wim Mertens and 1970’s children's BBC soundtracks such as those by Freddie Phillips, and Vernon Elliot.

In 2014 with the album half finished Vic moved back to the UK, and after a period of disruption where his equipment was still in transit, he completed the record in the spring of 2015.

Two Events

On the 11th Oct there will be a Clay Pipe special afternoon at the Hangover Lounge in their new home at The Betsey Trotwood, in Clerkenwell, London.  Sharron Kraus and Directorsound will be playing. There will be Clay Pipe DJs and a Pop Up shop selling Clay Pipe goodies which will include 'Market Only' copies of  the Thalassing and Hardy Tree CDs. + A FREE COPY of the above A3 poster for everyone who attends.

    

Following a series of events in North and West Wales, East Cornwall and Bristol, Caught By The River are excited to announce their return to the capital for a unique afternoon event at Bush Hall. The Caught by the River Social Club on Sunday 15 November will comprise music, film, talk, poetry, a fully stocked bar and a bookshop. Featuring a selection of our friends and contributors, including:

• Darren Hayman presents ‘Thankful Villages’.
A Thankful Village is a village where every soldier returned alive from World War I – Darren is currently visiting all 54 of these villages, making a piece of music and short film for each one. He will be providing a taster of both the films and music from this project.

• A rare live performance from July Skies.
July Skies’ classic much underheard debut album ‘Dreaming of Spires’ was first released in 2002. This month has seen the album released on vinyl for the first time. A Caught by the River classic. This will be their first London gig since god knows when.

• Richard Skelton in conversation with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood.
Richard, along with his partner Autumn Richardson, runs Corbel Stone Press, taking a particular interest in landscape, the poetics of place, ecology, folklore and animism. Richard will be talking to Colin Greenwood about his new book, Beyond the Fell Wall, published by Little Toller Books in November.

• Poetry from Faber New Poet Will Burns and Martha Sprackland.
Named as one of the 4 Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014, Will Burns is our Caught by the River Poet-in-Residence. His pamphlet was published by Faber in October 2014. Martha Sprackland has previously won the Foyle Young Poet Award, and is Assistant Poetry Editor at Faber & Faber.

• DJ Frances Castle.
Based in North London, Frances Castle is a freelance illustrator. In 2011, she set up Clay Pipe Music, a boutique record label determined, in an age of anonymous downloads, to release beautifully designed and illustrated CDs and LPs. Clay Pipe specialises in releasing atmospheric music with a strong theme or sense of place.

Jon Brooks '52' Evening Edition.

The second edition of Jon Brooks '52' is available now. 

500 hand numbered copies, on beautiful reverse mat board with a download code inside the sleeve. 

This is exactly the same as the previous sold out edition except for the cover artwork.

SOLD OUT

However there are still a few copies available at: Experimedia (USA)
You can also download it directly from Jon's bandcamp page:
HERE

Jon Brooks returns to Clay Pipe after 2012's sell out 'Shapwick'. '52' sees Jon taking a gentle side step away from his Advisory Circle work for Ghost Box, into more personal and reflective territory. Inspired by his Grandmothers' house, synth-laden and atmospheric '52' contains 14 aural memories of the house and garden.

“... will you stop tearing up that newspaper? It’s making a mess down here”. I sat quietly

 and watched the pieces float from the mezzanine, through the railings, down to the floor
below. I was reminded of late autumn, when dried seed helicopters from the trees were
abundant - their free-flowing nature always a reminder of our life cycles. It was an early
meditation; something to help focus the restless mind.

Silence broke eventually. “They all come from Leafield. They head from there with the
purpose of making our lives difficult!”. I wasn’t entirely convinced, but I let it go. I thought of
their colonies, their families, the way they moved and went about their business - it was a
fascinating other world, where everyone looked out for each other. Always a lucky escape
for them, through the hum of a summer evening.

“Doctor of Philosophy. That’s what it means, it’s an abbreviation”. I wondered, as I pulled
another thick rubber band around the arm of the sofa. The structures I made seemed to
serve no purpose at all; they didn’t need to.

“... I’m resting up for the weekend”. I always noticed that. The pencil sharpener, the cuckoo
clock, everything in its’ place. The way the dust fell in the late afternoon sun. I wouldn’t
leave.

On the way back up the hill, we passed the three monkeys. “Do you think you’ll go to
college?”. “I think so”, I answered, not really knowing why I’d chosen that reply. The words
flutter-echoed through the stone and brick, in the heat of the day; all the way past Mr
Mulberry’s, Mrs Viner’s, Mrs Mouser’s.

SIDE 1

Morning Window

The Mezzanine

Fibre Optics

Pond i

Hothouse

All The Way From Leafield

December Trees

SIDE 2

The Back Room

Lichen

Walk In Store

Pond ii

Wax Lemons

Whispering Glass

End Of The Corridor

Sharron Kraus' 'Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers'

Sharron Kraus' 'Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers'  

SOLD OUT

12" LP, 500 numbered copies, reverse board mat cover, with fully illustrated booklet, and download code.

Sharron Kraus makes her debut on Clay Pipe Music with a collection of songs inspired by the Welsh folk tales of The Mabinogi. The idea for the album was first realised while she was living in rural Mid Wales.

“I started off writing the songs as a way of getting to grips with what was happening in the stories” She says,“Trying to understand things that at first seemed confusing to me, and quickly got sucked in to a strange and wonderful world. I fell in love with these stories whilst being mystified by them and the process of wrestling them into song form has been one of the most challenging and rewarding of my song writing projects to date.”

The stories collected in The Four Branches of The Mabinogi were written in the 11th Century but contain themes that remain relevant today: love and hatred; battles for power; loss, displacement and migration of peoples; magic and wonder.

The album is full of beautiful crystal clear melodies that enhance the intrigue of the tales Sharron is telling. Using harp, recorders and bowed dulcimer, as well as guitar and piano the songs manage to capture the atmosphere of the time and take the listener back to the magical places mentioned in the stories.

Sharron Kraus is a UK-based singer, musician and songwriter whose music though informed by the folk traditions of England and Appalachia has its own distinctive voice. Heralded as one of the strongest voices in English contemporary folk. She has recorded a collection of traditional folk songs, Leaves From Off the Tree, with Meg Baird and Helena Espvall of Philadelphia psych folk band Espers, but the majority of her work is self-authored.

Sharron has been featured in The Wire, Rolling Stone, fRoots, Uncut, The Sound Projector and Dirty Linen, and is one of the musicians focussed on in Jeanette Leech's Seasons They Change: The Story of Acid, Psych and Experimental Folk. She has appeared on Radio 3's 'The Verb', and recorded sessions for BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Shropshire, Freakzone on Radio 6, and independent radio stations across the US.

Sharron Kraus: vocals, guitar, recorders, bowed dulcimer, organ, percussion
Harriet Earis: harp

Nancy Wallace: vocals

Nick Palmer: piano